Announcing our first-ever event: New York Central HUDSONFEST!

JR Junction Train & HobbyOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBERFORUM SPONSOR

We are excited to announce we're formalizing plans for our very first HUDSONFEST! We have been hinting about this for awhile now and it looks like details are starting to come together.

What: HUDSONFEST 2023
When: T.B.A. (Summer-Fall, 2023)
Where: Jr Junction Train & Hobby, Syracuse NY
Featuring: A first-ever gathering of O Gauge New York Central HUDSON modelers, collectors, railroad enthusiasts and the Central NY Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Inc. O Gauge Model Railroad Group.

Tentative HUDSONFEST Plans:

Open house featuring continual operating HUDSON action on the Chapter's 22'x42' scenic operating modular layout.
HUDSON Show & Tell
HUDSON Speed Trials
Luncheon
HUDSON Swap Meet
HUDSON Parts Sales
Donated O Gauge model trains for sale by CNYNRHS Model Railroad Group Members
(proceeds from sales benefits CNYNRHS activities and railway preservation efforts)
HUDSON Modeling Seminars
Slide show of Prototype HUDSON photographs in CNYNRHS Archive Collection
Guest Speakers
Special commemorative HUDSONFEST T-shirt
Special sale prices throughout Jr Junction Train & Hobby including in-stock HUDSON products!

All this and much more is tentatively planned! We anticipate HUDSONFEST taking place around the release of our highly anticipated and already (over) sold-out release of our New York Central "Jubilee" J1c Hudson #5266 by MTH Electric Trains later this summer. The actual date of HUDSONFEST will be determined when the models are "on-the-water" and can be estimated to arrive.

EVERYONE interested in participating is encouraged to bring their favorite HUDSON model and anything of related interest to share with your fellow hobbyists. More details will be announced as they are finalized. Tell your friends and plan to attend!

For more information about CNYNRHS Model Railroad Group, visit their web site here.

The following photographs are from the archives of the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Inc. and are used here by permission.

These photographs are from the archives of the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Inc. and are used here by permission.

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2/6/239:27 PM

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harmonyardsOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

This is going to be cool,……

Pat

2/6/239:53 PM

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LandsteinerOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Lots of Hudson fans in Western and Central NY, so I predict a large turnout. You may want to have people tell you they are coming so you have enough oxygen. .

2/6/2310:20 PM

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RDMOGR Forum Member

If only we could take this train . . .

https://museums.fivecolleges.e...000906&i=3241478

2/6/2310:42 PM

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iguanaman3OGR Forum Member

@RDM posted:
If only we could take this train . . .
https://museums.fivecolleges.e...000906&i=3241478

Couldn't a real NYC Hudson be built? I bet if there was enough cash it could be done. There are plans I am sure.

2/6/2311:01 PM

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PSMOGR Forum Member

@iguanaman3 posted:
Couldn't a real NYC Hudson be built? I bet if there was enough cash it could be done. There are plans I am sure.

Could it be done? Sure, the Brits built a new A1 and are building a new P2 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and some Pennsy guys are building a new T1 The T1 Trust (prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org) It just requires a boat load of organization, people, and cash. Are there enough NYC guys that would give the time, money, and effort required to organize and build one? I don't know.

2/7/237:55 AM

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Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

@PSM posted:
Could it be done? Sure, the Brits built a new A1 and are building a new P2 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and some Pennsy guys are building a new T1 The T1 Trust (prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org) It just requires a boat load of organization, people, and cash. Are there enough NYC guys that would give the time, money, and effort required to organize and build one? I don't know.

Regulations could also play into building one, local and federal. If there is enough money to do so, anything can be done.

2/7/239:55 AM

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D500OGR Forum Member

@PSM posted:
Could it be done? Sure, the Brits built a new A1 and are building a new P2 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and some Pennsy guys are building a new T1 The T1 Trust (prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org) It just requires a boat load of organization, people, and cash. Are there enough NYC guys that would give the time, money, and effort required to organize and build one? I don't know.

I would certainly contribute. I have not contributed to the T1 project, though. I like the T1, but my heart is not in it. A Hudson project I would support wholeheartedly. I'm not sure that it would take off. Americans in general have no pride in, and even less knowledge of, their industrial past, unlike the Brits, who are much more correct in their thinking about such matters. I am no big admirer of the Old Country, but they do have far more pride in themselves. Here, it's just self-loathing.

Anyway, I digress - the Hudsonfest is a nice idea, but I live way too far from there (1600 miles SW of there) to attend.

So - I'll join in by showing my bashed Lionel Mercury 5344: